FC3: Unable to log into newly created users?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Dec 23 08:57:47 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:19 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Did FC3 change so much that I really missed the boat? :-)
>
> I discovered to my dismay after installing my new FC3
> OS along with the updates in the last few days that when
> I got around to create a normal account (non-root), I find
> that no matter how I tried, I am unable to log in! I can log
> in as root, update the password, delete and recreate the
> account, there is no possible way to log in! I even tried
> as root, the "su - myaccount" and even THAT fails with a
> "su: incorrect password"!
>
> I have created several other users, using the gui interface
> and useradd and the results are the same! What is going on!?
>
> I am only able to log into FC3 as root!
>
> Can someone shed some light on this for me please?
Do you have any non-local authentication requirements configured?
Fire up system-config-authentication and make sure you've not got LDAP
authentication etc. turned on.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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